Posted by fallsfall on March 22, 2004, at 14:08:55
In reply to Re: How's that old tranzfrrenze coming along? » tinydancer, posted by lonelygirl on March 22, 2004, at 11:11:14
I don't know that I would advise you NOT to talk to your CBT therapist about your transference. I'm a firm believer in telling your therapist EVERYTHING.
I wouldn't really say that my therapist "did not react well to the information" about my transference. She didn't react well when I told her that I googled her. I don't think that I ever told her that I was feeling transference (because I don't think that I understood that until I left). She didn't figure out on her own that I was feeling transference - or if she did she never explained it to me. I don't know what she would have done if I were able to articulate what I was feeling. My guess is that she would have tried to get me to see the reality of the situation (assuming that she *wasn't* really mad at me) - which would have been a good thing. I think that it would be incorrect to say that CBT therapists can't/don't deal with transference. But in MY case, MY CBT therapist didn't deal with MY transference and that was a problem for ME. I think that it is correct to say that Psychodynamic therapists are more likely than CBT therapists to look for transference, and to have training on how to resolve it. My hope is that if others find themselves caught up in transference that isn't budging, and their therapist isn't helping with it, that they consider changing therapists (because they have heard that it helped at least one person - me).
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